The Best 100 Arabic Books
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
Arab Writers Union, 107 Books
This is an interesting and difficult one. Big thanks to arablit.org. Evidently it was created by the Arab Writer's Union. There's not many voter details and many of the books are not published in english. The original wikipedia page is offline but here's an old verison of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20100425013711/http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%81%D8%B6%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A6%D8%A9_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9
Who voted?
No contemporary source specifies a figure.
Akhbār al-Adab issue 426 (the list’s print source) is not digitised online, and its table of contents reproduced on Goodreads and other sites does not mention voters.
Later commentary (e.g., Al-Khalīj 23 Jan 2024) only says the list followed a “pan-Arab poll” of senior writers and critics, without giving totals.
alkhaleej.ae
I am going to assume it's more than 1. 10 seems like a conservative number. If anyone has any more additional information please let me know.
This list was originally published in 2010 and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.